Returning home, I assessed the damages. Now I could relax and let my knees go without medication to try to evaluate their condition. The extended time of strenuous use during vacation had taken its toll. Stairs were more difficult to climb, and getting up from a low sofa was almost impossible.

I had no regrets about the trip. Even without the abuse, my arthritis would have continued to worsen, and I speculated that it had been my last chance ever to enjoy an experience like that anyway.

I knew where my ailment would take me. I was, eventually, destined to end up in a wheelchair. Or at the very least I’d need knee replacement surgery, which was not generally very successful in those days. Despite my long experience as the owner and director of a hospital as well as several clinics, I’ve never been fond of surgery.

… but they grind exceeding small-After the vacation I was careful to treat my knees gently, and despite the severe effects of that experience, further deterioration did not occur at an abnormally fast rate. It was constantly evident, slowly grinding away at my knees, but not extreme. Just the usual relentless progression of an ordinary osteoarthritis case. I decided to go back to work at what I loved most: medical research. No strenuous activity needed there.

My work as director of the San Diego Clinic Immunological Centre has been the most rewarding I’ve ever experienced. How could it possibly be otherwise at a facility dedicated to the research and development of products and treatments for ailments for which no current therapy is yet known. And I took advantage of that personally, relentlessly urging more and more research on arthritis. True I had my own interests at stake, but it wasn’t hard to justify our efforts, either, not with well over forty million Americans suffering the pain and crippling effects of rheumatoid and osteoarthritis.

Then one day it happened. An obscure little three page article in a pharmaceutical journal was discovered by our researchers. It described investigations made at the US Government National Institutes of Health (NIH) about 25 years earlier. An injectable substance called cetylmyristoleate seemed to possess both preventive and curative properties for laboratory rats with induced arthritis.

We had our doubts. It would surely seem that anything that really worked would have come to light a lot sooner than 25 years. On the other hand, knowing how government agencies like the NIH operate, finding that some important discovery had been buried for a hundred years would not be too surprising.

We decided to give it a try. As interested as I was in treating my own problems, I was even more interested in seeing if it had any benefits when administered orally. After all, it would be far easier to make an oral product available to the millions who need it than make it necessary for them to get prescriptions for an injectable. So I tried taking the foul tasting oil orally. The results: nothing spectacular, but I definitely saw a bit of improvement. Enough to encourage us to develop a product that did work in capsule form for oral administration.

When I took the product that we had developed on our own, which is called CMO, it was like a miracle. I experienced an improvement of about 80% in just a couple of days. Upon repeating the CMO several days later, it was almost like I’d never had arthritis at all. I couldn’t believe that my knees, which had been devoid of cartilage and grinding bone on bone for about six years, were now working painlessly and almost perfectly. I could still feel a bit of clicking in my right knee as I walked. And I would get a shot of pain if I twisted a knee joint. But that was heaven compared to what I had been suffering.

Stairs are still a problem for my right knee. Because of the erosion of the bones over the years, they just don’t work quite right on the stairs. However, normal flat walking is just fine, and inclined ramps are no longer a problem. I’ve enjoyed over two and a half years now with no problems and no need for further treatment or medication of any kind. It has set me free sexually as well. Frankly, it has turned my whole life around. I’m no longer a cripple!

It was such a joy, just being able to enjoy a pain-free walk along the beach, or an extended walk through the shopping mall again.

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Bone marrow transplants seem to have succeeded in reversing the arthritic process in two very remarkable cases.

Do you guarantee cure? No responsible medical authority would ever guarantee a cure for any ailment. The world has yet to discover any treatment or medication, no matter how successful, that works for every one every time. However, in case of difficulties, the staff of the San Diego Clinic is happy to consult with you and your doctor to try to investigate and resolve any problems.

Does CMO work on pets and other animals? Animals somehow seem to have responded even more favourably than humans. We have never seen a single failure with an animal! That may be because they are less likely to have been pharmaceutically abused with harmful medications. And certainly they don’t have the peculiar psychological resistance we sometimes encounter in some humans.

The size of the animal does not seem to matter. CMO has been successful in treating do.gs, cats, hamsters, pot-bellied pigs, horses, goats, and other animals. Dosages are adjusted to the size of the animal’s immune system, not its weight. Horses, for example, that weigh ten times more than humans usually require only three or four bottles of CMO, not ten. Cats, on the other hand, need only about twenty capsules to be able to annoy you by jumping up on your kitchen counter again.

It may take a bit of imagination to dose certain animals for whom it’s impossible to administer whole capsules. Most animals don’t care for the taste of CMO, so it must be mixed into some favourite, highly flavoured food to mask the taste.

To our knowledge, CMO has never yet been administered to a bird, a reptile, an amphibian, or a fish, but we’d love to see the results.

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Is there a special diet involved? There are certain foods that will interfere in the action of CMO so they must be eliminated or limited to an absolute minimum for about four weeks only. Alcohol, chocolate, black tea, coffee and other caffeinated drinks must be avoided completely. Potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers may need to be limited. The consumption of fats, oils, legumes, and grains must be reduced. Meats, fish, poultry and eggs may be eaten without any limitation. Most vegetables and fruits are unrestricted as well. At the end of the four week program, you may resume your normal eating routine.

Is there an exercise program required? No special exercises are necessary. The absence of pain and return of joint mobility is so profound that normal activities will follow quite naturally. Unfortunately, the usual tendency is to overindulge in the new-found freedom. This frequently results in a bit of soreness in muscles that had gone so long unused.

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As long as the joint can be moved however slightly (either by the afflicted person or even by someone else), joint mobility can usually be restored in full or at least in part. The vast majority of users benefit by a 100% improvement. Most others improve by at least 70%. Even a 70% improvement is highly significant to persons whose joint mobility is severely limited.

Impairment of joint mobility is usually the result of inflammation and/or pain impeding the movement. Once CMO does away with the inflammation, the pressure on the joint is gone and so is the interference with the movement. The pain is also relieved when the inflammation subsides.

However, if the bones in the joint have been damaged or have fused together, only surgery is likely to help those particular joints. CMO can halt the arthritic process, but it cannot repair physical damage to bone itself.

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With the intervention of CMO, the arthritic process is halted and the body can then heal itself quite naturally. The pain and inflammation usually disappear promptly as a result of the body’s own natural healing abilities. When CMO stops the arthritic process, the body heals itself. The speed with which that happens varies a great deal from one person to another. The state of one’s overall health, apart from the severity of the arthritis itself, affects one’s healing process. Individual healing ability is one of the major determining factors influencing the rapidity of the recovery.

Most people begin to improve in about four to seven days. Many respond overnight. The benefits may appear quite gradually, or they may be felt all at once. A few people failed to see any benefit at all for four to six weeks after finishing all their capsules. For them, it was an eternity of disappointment. Then when their symptoms disappeared, it came as quite a surprise because at first it seemed that the treatment had failed completely. Apparently the CMO had halted the arthritic process, but the body was slow to heal so the benefits were slow to appear. That’s certainly rare, but it’s happened several times over the years.

On the other hand, there are overnight successes. With the first formal introduction of CMO at the national medical conference on ageing at Las Vegas in December 1995, all five of the doctors who tried CMO for their own arthritis responded quickly. Three of them responded overnight, while one took two days and the other took three days to experience the complete reversal of their symptoms. There’s just no telling how quickly or how long it may take for someone to fully enjoy the benefits of their own healing processes.

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